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"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why... Read Full Overview

An exhilarating new collection by the poet often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman. Poems in this substantial volume, many of which are no longer available in other editions, have been selected from seven previous collections (1972-1995). Along with these favorite poems redeemed,... Read Full Overview

"It isn't often you come across poetry that makes you want to turn to the stranger next to you on the bus, grab him by the collar, and say, 'You have to read this ' Stern's encompassing embrace allows us to step into his delirium and experience both." Deborah Garrison (The New... Read Full Overview